While this country was becoming more open and tolerant about people with 'alternate orientation', it was still a bit harder for transsexuals to find acceptance. Admittedly, transsexuals are much rarer than people who are homosexual and except for extensive and expensive surgery and hormone therapy, there really isn't anything they can do about it with today's modern medicine. Project Hermaphroditus does offer a partial resolve in making people half-male/half-female. But there was no known for them to fully convert to the opposite sex. Though there was some postulation that converting to certain species of whiptail lizards would allow complete conversion to female, but obviously there are no species that are purely male.
Many transsexuals have kept their gender identity bottled up for years, even in more tolerable times. A good example was Alvin. Most people would never suspect that he secretly identified himself as a woman trapped in a man's body, especially when he put as much effort as he could to build up his muscles. He's also had many a fling in his day, which made the likeliness of his being tran even less likely. When he was being honest with himself, Alvin would admit that the woman inside him was probably a lesbian or at least bi. Sure he's slept with lots of women, but he's always secretly wanted to be the women he was sleeping with.
Of course, word has been spreading through the bodybuilding grapevine about Project White Lily. Anton may have been influential back in the day, but he didn't know everyone. But those who have joined the project has spread word to their friends and old co-workers, those who wanted to restart their careers with something purer. It took a while for the invitation to make its way to Alvin, but he jumped at it as soon as he could. Project Hermaphroditus may not the exact answer for Alvin's desires, but it would probably make hooking up with another woman easier, even if said woman would be packing hir own extra equipment.
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It wasn't hard for Alvin to get into the hermaphrodite program through Project White Lily. However, the choices for animals seemed limited to him. Sure, it may seem that horse, hyena, lion, anaconda, anglerfish, wolf, and cattle were enough for selections, but Alvin's tastes made him yearn for something else. He liked sharks in general and he saw how well it worked out for Buford. Anyways, a bull shark would mean he'd be less dependent on seawater.
"You are aware that you will be going through a more extreme change than most," said the scientist attending to Alvin.
"The only way it could be more extreme is if I went for the four-armed option," said Alvin, "Which I can do without, thanks."
"And you realize there will be some remedial classes to teach you how to deal with your new predatory instincts, your ability to breathe air and water, the hormone imbalance caused by-"
"I know, I know," said Alvin, "I wouldn't be asking if I didn't intend to go through. Will you have to uplift a bull shark into a herm first?"
"Actually, no," said the scientist, "Now that we have a better understanding of the hermaphrodite gene, it's really simple to add it to any pre-existing sample of Animalian DNA."
"Oh, so I'll be the only herm shark," said Alvin.
"You'll be the first," corrected the scientist, "Eventually, someone else may go for that option now that you've opened it. If you're ready to begin that is."
"Lay it on me," said Alvin as he held up an arm.
The scientist carefully injected the prepared dosage into Alvin's arm. "Welcome to Animalia," he said before leaving the room.
Alvin could practically feel the stuff going through his veins. He tried to keep himself calm, allow his heart to slow down so he wouldn't get too stressed...or would he want his heart to race faster and speed up the spread through his body. The point became moot as grey scales started developing on the injected arm. Alvin grimaced a little as his muscles tightened under his skin. He was in pretty good shape, but it felt like his skin was getting tighter as it turned grey.
Before long, more piscine features became noticeable, namely the webbing that was appearing between his fingers. His feet were already stretching into flipper-like appendages. Speaking of appendages, he could feel his lower back shifting. It was a good thing he was only wearing his briefs right now as his backbone started extending out into the beginning of a tail. His dorsal fin began growing next. Here's where it go interesting as dorsal fins were located in different places between the two sexes. While females had dorsal fins on the backs of their heads, males had them in the middle of their back, which made it harder to lie down. Alvin's dorsal fin ended up growing from his upper back, just under his neck.
Alvin let out a groan that was a bit more higher pitch as he felt pressure building up in his chest and crotch. He looked down to see his nipples getting bigger and puffier before the hard pectorals they were on started ballooning out. That wasn't to say his pectorals were going soft, but now there was growing tissue between them and his nipples. The expanding areas started as mound before getting rounder as new mammary glands started filling up. Alvin gave a lusty groan as he played with one nipple as his other hand went down to his briefs and yanked them down.
Despite his growing breasts and his waist and hips refiguring into a more feminine shape, his rod was as hard as ever. Harder actually because it was growing in his hand, changing shape and color. In contrast, his ballsack was shrinking rapidly. That wasn't to say his testicles were disappearing, but they were being drawn back into his body to keep them internal. But those weren't the reproductive organs he had. As his balls drew inwards, his sack flattened before stretching out to form a small mound. A thin slit appeared on the mound before it started opening. Flesh inside parted as a tunnel to hir new womb opened up.
Alvin gasped louder, air coming in through new openings in hir neck. The air felt terribly cold and dry on hir new gills, but they closed after their first exposure. Alvin ran a tongue over her lips before pausing. Shi leaned over and spat into hir hands. Shi was a little unnerved to see hir hand filled with human teeth. But then new teeth started pushing out of hir gums, sharp teeth with serrated edges. Hir mouth was growing bigger to accommodate them as hir face pushed out into a snout.
Alvin got sidetracked by her new shark features before hir pussy sent a twinge of pleasure through hir. Dropping hir old teeth, shi start groping one breast, which had grown much fuller. Hir other hand reached past hir rod, which split into two shark claspers, and started fingering hir pussy. Shi moaned loudly, hir voice much more feminine than before. Shi masturbated furiously until shi hit hir first female climax. Milk squirted from hir breast while hir pussy gushed. Even hir shark rods were dripping with need.
But Alvin wasn't interest in hir male side just yet. First of all, shi wanted to see how shi looked. The shark person in the mirror was undoubtedly a sexy fish. Like the other herms, shi had a mostly feminine, if muscular, physique asides from hir broader shoulders. Shi could probably be more feminine once shi let hir hair grow out. Otherwise, the main things that separated hir from a female shark was the dorsal fin being on hir upper back and the two shark dicks that were begging for attention.
"Hmm...not bad," said the new shark herm, "Never imagined Elena to be this kind of sexy." Shi had thought of what hir true name would be years ago. Shi had fantasized about becoming Elena, but shi never pictured her as being a shark Animalian, let alone a herm one. "Well, it's not a perfect transition, but it's close enough," said Elena with hir lighter voice. Shi absentmindedly stroked hir two dicks, which all but jumped in hir hands. After getting over the shock of feeling the double the usual pleasure, Elana grinned. "Then again, this may not be so bad," shi said before shi started stroking hir cocks with vigor.